Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 288, evolving Artemis mission operations. I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts,

all to let you know what's going on in the world if you miss spaceflight and more.

Artemis 1 was a critical demonstration of key technologies needed for the next generation of

deep space exploration. The space launch system took its maiden flight and Orion was pushed to its

limits while flight controllers monitored the 25-day operation. The flight test was deemed a success.

Months later, the Artemis 2 crew was announced preparing for the next step in the Artemis program,

a flight test with humans. As these milestones were achieved, and as these months pass,

the work to prepare for the flight control teams for the next steps never stopped.

Much was learned from Artemis 1, and is still being learned that helps us to prepare for

the next flight test with humans on board. Stakes are ever higher, but luckily there's a dedicated

team ensuring that mission control is ready. The walk us through what was learned from Artemis 1,

and what we're doing right now to evolve and prepare for Artemis 2 and beyond. We have the lead

flight directors for the Artemis 2 mission, Zebscoville, currently acting, and Jeff Radigan,

who will soon take on a permanent lead for the Artemis 2 mission operations from here in

Mission Control Houston. Alright, let's go ahead and get started. Enjoy.

Zeb and Jeff, thank you so much for coming on Houston Road Podcast.

Good to be here. It's awesome to be here. Thank you.

Alright, very good. Zeb, welcome back. We've had you on for Demo 2. It's a while ago at this point,

right? And now we're at the time that we're recording this. Crew 6 has already launched. Crew 7

is next, so it's been a bit since we've had you on. It's been a hot minute. I think about the

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